As 2012 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.
For someone with so many famous heads stuck on poles outside his jungle hut, you’d expect he’d put a little more “brag” into it. But the soft-spoken Eric Drew Feldman lets his keyboard playing do the talking for him. When you’ve recorded and played live with a twisted array of musical talent that includes Captain Beefheart, the Residents, Snakefinger, Pere Ubu, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and Polyphonic Spree, you don’t have to blow any hot air into your own balloon. Speaking from his San Francisco home, Feldman touched on the high points of a marvelous career like a flat stone skipping over the surface of a mountain lake. His latest project, kNIFE & fORK’s The Higher You Get The Rarer The Vegetation, is out now via Frank Black’s The Bureau label. Feldman will be also guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with him.
Feldman: With the recent death of Andy Griffith, besides being reminded of how good he was in A Face In The Crowd, I remembered something I had not thought of in a long time: When I was about 12 years of age, I attended a recording session of Griffith and Don Knotts, who were making demos for songs that they were to perform for an upcoming Vegas run. I was in attendance because the father of a friend of mine was the producer on the session. We were instructed to sit in the rear of the control room and be invisible. I remember that these two television actors were singing “Down In The Valley” in two-part harmony and were hitting some interesting but unintentional notes. It was quite revelatory to see Andy and Barney spewing expletives at one another and anyone else that they could reach.
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